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On the chanter subject, it can be chancy to CC and buff AND run a hyped up killing machine that hates you really, really, bad. I have seen groups complain at the chanter about charming, so then he or she starts charming..massive DEEPS! Things go ok at first but there's a bad pull by the rogue who is pulling because the monk refuses to pull and the chanter gets busy and his lil' buddy gets free and eats face and then they all die.
Also often in a grind group you kill all the handy merbs before next respawn anyways and the charmed mob just makes standing around waiting last longer.
So..unless you are REALLY GOOD at it, I'd rather you just CC and buff and do those two items well. You can pull your jabober out if you want, it's actually a pretty good DOT hasted and dual weaponed.